I first noticed this behavior during the online evolution debates from about 15 years back. During debates with studies experts in their fields, fundamentalists tell those experts what they think, and what their field of study is. Those experts would calmly deconstruct those claims, while patiently reminding the fundie that none of their perceptions are true. Then the fundie would just continue on as if the expert hadn’t said anything.

Then I’d see it more often, usually in places adjacent to fundamentalist christianity. Then in more places, until now, where we have fundamentalist types, be they pundit, pastor or politician, claiming to know better than the experts on the climate, on the weather, on biology, on psychology, on psychiatry and so on.

I’ve begun a study on reconstructionist christianity, but haven’t found a cultural reason that underpins this behavior. It’s almost like they have blinders on, that prevent them from even seeing the evidence against their claims and overwrites them instantly and I’ve never come across an explanation to this.